Saturday, April 27, 2024
Economic growth is to stand at 1.9% and inflation rate at 9.5% at the end of the year, National Bank Governor Anita Angelovska-Bezhoska said at Thursday's presentation of the quarterly report with the central bank's autumn macroeconomic projections. For the coming year, as the Governor said at today’s press conference,...
The total value of exported goods from North Macedonia in the January-September 2023 period amounted to EUR 6.2 billion, a 1.4 percent increase compared to the same period last year, while the value of imported goods in the same period was EUR 8.2 billion, or 8.4 percent less than...
At a time when the world is facing a climate crisis that makes food production more difficult, we ask to reconsider the need for legal changes that enable the permanent conversion of agricultural lands into construction lands for the development of renewable energy sources. Due to the proposed possibility of...
The Macedonian Ministry of Finance (MF) informs that it published the prospectus for the second issue of Civil Bonds on October 18 in the amount of 10 million euros. Citizens have the opportunity to pay funds for registration of civil bonds today, while the auction will be held tomorrow,...
The Government is yet to receive a response from the European Commission over the fee that Bulgaria introduced for transit of the Russian gas on its territory, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Fatmir Bytyqi said on Friday. Bytyqi said it is still not clear if Gazprom would accept to...
Banks and savings banks, i.e. all providers of payment services, are obliged to inform citizens about the costs they charge, through an informative document on fees for payment services, with data in a standardized form. This is prescribed by the new Law on Payment Services and Payment Systems, which...
The 2024 Budget that is being finalized will not include funds for higher wages of elected and appointed officials, said Deputy PM for Economic Affairs Fatmir Bytyqi on Friday. The deputy PM said the Government would take the decision, not leaving it up to officials to give up on the...
Industrial production in rose by 4.5 percent in September 2023 compared to September 2022, and by 0.7 percent in the January-September period of 2023 compared to the same period last year, said the State Statistical Office on Tuesday. The industrial production in the section Mining and quarrying in September 2023,...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) made decisions by which the final price for the delivered thermal energy to consumers supplied by ESM, from the requested price increase of over 50%, approved 4.51%. On an average account of MKD 1800, the increase is MKD 80. “The price for the citizens remains...
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, household bank deposits have increased by 20 percent, with citizens' savings accounts reaching an estimated total worth of 40 billion Macedonian denars, according to National Bank Governor Anita Angelovska-Bezhoska in a press release from the central bank marking World Savings Day. Angelovska-Bezhoska said domestic...